FOWLER, Samuel, (grandson of Samuel Fowler [1779-1844]),
a Representative from New Jersey;
born in Port Jervis, Orange County, N.Y., March 22, 1851;
attended the Newton (N.J.) Academy, Princeton College, and Columbia College Law School in New York City;
was admitted to the bar of New York in 1873 and of New Jersey in 1876 and practiced law in Newark and Newton, N.J.;
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893);
chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Fifty-second Congress);
was not a candidate for reelection to the Fifty-third Congress;
resumed the practice of his profession in Ogdensburg, N.J.;
died in Newark, N.J., March 17, 1919;
interment in North Church Cemetery, Hardyston Township, near Hamburg, N.J.